Machine for the manufacture of bottle-closures.



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' MACHINE POR THE MANUFACTURE OF BOTTLE CLOSURES.

APPLICATION PIL'ED MAR, 1, 1913.

LS/fl. Patented Feb. 1914.

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n', hull mi A BOGDANPPY. MACHINE FOR THE MANUFAGTURE OF BOTTLE CLGSURBS. APPLICATION FILED MAR.1, 1913.

1,087,7' 1 O. Patented Feb. 17, 1914.

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WITNESSES fr j y* Armen/Er T El) ALEXNDLER BOGDNFFY, 01" NEW YORK, N, Y., SSGNOR TO T-LE IN'IERNATIGNAL CORK COMPANY, GF BROOKLYN, NEW YORK. Il. CSRPORATION Ul? NEU] YSRK.

MACHINE FOR THE BIANUE'TURE 0E BOTTLECLOSURES.

Specieation of Letters Patent.

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Original application filed May 29, 1912, Serial NoA 700,453` Divided and this application filed liarci l,

the classknou'n as crown cork sealing caps or closures. Closures of this type usually comprise three parts, that is a metallic cap or crown, having a corrugated iang'e to be locked to the exterior of the bottle neck, a sealingr disk or packing of cork or the like, and a thin disk of impervious binding material, usually fusible, interposed between the metallic cap and the sealing disk. `The purpose of this interposed impervious disk is to unite the packing of,cork or the like Y with the metallic cap', and at the same time to prevent the bottled liquids from taint by contact with the cap and the incident corrosion of the metal.l In manufacturing these closures the interposed impervious disk is heated to properly fuse the saine, and the assembled closures subjected to pressure- While the binding medium is liardei'iiiiir, cooling devices being usually applied. while the hardening takes place. In some cases, instead of the interposed impervious disk7 a liquid or semi-liquid adhesive material is' lmade use. of, such adhesive material serving,r

the tivo-fold purpose oi' the impervious disk. renders, however, the manufacture of the closure. simpler in that the usual heating vand coolin` devices are done away `with.

In practice it has been, found diilicult to applyv to the capsof the closures a predetermined and proper amount of adhesive niaterial inasmuch as such medium is applied to the inner ace-o` the cap in a liquid or senil-liquid state.

lt is nou' one of the objects of the. present Aiuvcntion to produce a machine `which is simple in construction, unites the parts of i'hc. closures in a quick and i'clialilc manner. icndcrs the sealing disk yor packing iur pervious, assures a viii-ni union ot the me The use of such adhesive material .li`igl Q is a plan view' thereof; Fig.

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tallie cap and the said disk, and furthermore applies predetermined quantities of the ce inenting medium or adhesive material to the i .which Will more fully appear as the nature of the invention is 'better understood, the same consists in the combination, arrangement and construction of parts hereinafter fully described, pointed out in the appended claims and illustrated in the accompanying drawings, it being understood that many changes may be made in the size and prof portion of the several parts` and details of construction Within the scope o' the appended claims without departing from the spirit or sacriiicingh any of the advantages of the invention.

(lne of the. many possible embodiments of the invention is illustrated in the aecompanying drawings, in whieh:-

Figure l is 'a front elevation of a inachine embodying the present invention; 3 av section taken on line 3 3 of Figi; l is a perspective view or" the 'feeding means of the machine, in the form of a drum; Fig. 5 is a vertical longitudinal section of a portion of the main iframe 'of the machine Vwhich cooperates with the feeding drum;

l"`ig. is a side elevation of the means tor actuating the feeding drum; Fig. T is a section taken through a portion of the means for depositing, the sealing' disks into the caps; Fig- S is a section Vtaken tlrrtuigli a portion of the main frame of the apparatus and of the feeding drum with a capin position therein; Fig. 9 is a sectional View of the means for` applying the cementing medium or adhesive material Ato the nieYA tallic cap; Fig. l0 is a section taken through the reciprocating plunger shoo'ii in Fig. 9; and Fie', ll is a top elevation of the pluri ger shown in Fig. l0.

ln the dra-wings, the 'numeral 2i) designates a. base plate, by which are supported legs or stauda rds Q1, carrying a horizontal traine member 2Q, to 'which attached' in bear against the cylinder' Z3 and against iii alinenient with thb slot '26 and a groove g l is ;-ei-e\ved or otherwise attached tothe body lugs 55, against an inclined surface 5G upon the upper end of the reciprocable plate member 42. lYhen this plate member moves doiviivi'ard, the said springs will force the feeding finger outward, and thereby pei'- init the sliding of a cap onto the platform 33 in the drinn. As the plate member 42 moves upwa1d,-tlie said cap will be fed through the slot QG in engagement with the l gioove 24 in the cylinder and the groove 23 in the drum, the inclined surface 5G acting j against the feeding finger and torciiig the'l same toward the cylinder and the drum. When the cap is engaged b v the cylinder and the drinn, and the latter is rotated in the niannerfabove described. the cap will be fed along the groove 'Ji a distance corresponding to an angular travel of Siti, stop at such a point until another cap is fed into the groove 2l. and be tlien nioied along a distance eeriesponiliiig to an angular travel of UU oll the di'iiiii. whereby it will eonic into registering position with the aperture 27 in the bottoni ot the drinn, and stop there .in an upright position during the upward movementy ot' the plate member #12. lhile the said plate member is moving upward and the druin is kept stationary, an adhesi\e substance is applied to the inner face ot' tbe liead Aof the cap from a trough 57, whit-li is attached to theiuider face of the traine member 22. The means tor applying the adhesive substance to tlie:cap comprises a plunger 3S, which is reciprfmably mounted in a guide .39 inthe trough, and isattached to a bar G0. the latter being' pivoted at 61 to the rod (Si of an eccentric 63, which is keyed to the drivingsliatt 35. The plunger is shown in detail in Figs. l0 andl1 o't' the drawings, and comprises a hollow meniber having a plurality of perfoi'ations `(34 in its wall, and provided with ahead (35, which :spiings: Til. foiled around the pins and ar-m ranged iiA the said pliingers, the otlier ends ot' said spring-y bearing against the bottom portion ot be plungein the pins are thus resiliently supported and adapted to contact with the inner faces of the caps, no matter .how uneven or convex said faces be. i stuing box 71 is mounted upon the bottom of the trough 57 at the point through which the bar 60 extends through said bottom. The eccentrics 40 and (33 are keyed to the, driving `shaft in such a manner that' the plunger 58 starts its downward movementl ii'tore the plate member 42 starts in that direction, and moves upward while the drum 30 is kept stationary and a metallic member of the closure is held with its flange downward in registering position with the aperyture 27 in the bottom of therylinder Q3. y In moving upward, the pins 67, which have been immersed in the adhesive material conf tained in the trough 57, will apply the adlicsive material, adhering to them, to the inner "-t'aceot the head of the cap' 25. By applying the adhesive material tothe caps in their upright positions, all of the samewill receive the same quantity. The cap is then transported step by step until itiegisters in an inverted position with the aperture 28 in the top of the cylinder 2?), then in this position, a sealing disk or packingof cork or the likeis placed into 'said cap. For this purpose an assemblingplunger 72 is arranged above the opening 28,'said plunger being slidably mounted'in vertical guides 73, and attached to the horizontal portion 7 t of an actuating rod 75, which is adapted to attached to a stationary part-of the machinel rod 77 of an eccentric 78, which is keyed, oi' otherwise fastened, to the driving shaft 35, and more particularly in such a manner that the assembling plunger 7 2 will move down- Ward when the plate member 42 moves upin the .cylinder 23 is at rest. The sealing disks are placed linto a vertical tube 79, which is attached to one of the guides 73 by means of a bracket 80, and is provided y with a 4longitudinal slot 8l, through which a finger piece 83 of a weight 84 protrndes, said weight being placed on 'top of said sealing disks and serves to feed same into a guideguideway 85 is provided in its bottom with aperture 2% in the cylinder 3. Theoiiter end of the reciprocable conveyer 86 contacts with an inclined surface 88 of a'block 8f), which is carried by the rod 75.v A spring 90 serves to force the said conveyer continuously intocontact with the inclined surface 88 of said block. The conveyer engages the lowermost of the sealing disks in the 'tube 79 and transfers the same to the opening 87 during the upward movement of the rod 75, pr in other 1 words while 'the assembling l .plunger is being lifted. The-latter will in ward, or in other words Whilethe drumk 30.

wayv of a i'cciprocable conveyer 86. Thean opening 87, which registers with the4 reciprocate in a guide 7 5', the latterbeing 10.0 l'he actuating rod 75 is pivoted at 7G to the vbe compressed to some extent p firmly in the cap. The assembling I machine, we find `ing` to apply adhesive its downward movement force the sealing disk through the opening 87 and theaperture 28 into the metal cap. The openingl 8T .in the bottom of the guideway 85 tapers toward the cylinder 23, its upper end beinglarger than the diameter of asealing disk= and the diameter at its lower endv being somewhat smaller than that of a sealing disk. For this reason the 'sealing diskjwill when it passes through the opening S7 and will, when forced into the cap, expand to be held thus plunger, besides that it forces the' sealing disk into the cap, exerts at the same time pressure upon the eomponen'tparts of the closure and firmlyv unites the said parts, for the reason that the adhesive material is still in its semisolid `condition when the parts of the closure arrive at the aperture 28. During the next quarter of a revolution of the drum 30, the assembled elosureis .transferred to the outs let 29, and discharged there into the chute 39 on'whieh it slides into the receptacle 'iSl Recapitulating now "he operation of the that the feedingdrum BU moves intermittently, making at each movement a quarter of a revolution and stopping 'then while the plate member 4t2 moves upward. During the movement ot' the feeding drum, a packing or sealing disk et cork or the like is fed in proper relation to the apei`- ture 2S' in the top et' the cylinder. During the rest'o'f the feeding drum, the eee'entrie rods G2 and 7( move in opposite directions and thereby actuate tlie-pluligerS and the assembling plunger 72, the plunger 58 serv material to the inner face of the head of themetallic cap and the assembling plunger 72 to force the sealing disk into the cap and to unite the parts of the closure.

What I claim 'is:- i l. In a machine for the manufacture of bottle closures oi' the cap variety, the combination with means for applying adhesive material to the inner face of the head of the metallic cap, means for' depositing a sealing disk into the cap, and means f-or conveying the metallic cap in succession to the elements mentioned and ior positioning the same with its open end downward into registering position with the adhesive material applying means, said depositing means servingz,r at the saine time to unite the disk with the cap.

'2. In a machine for bottle closures of `the cap variety, the combination with means for applying adhesive material to the inner face of the head of the metallic cap, means for depositing a sealing disk into the cap, and a single rotary means for 4conveying the metallic cap in succession to the elements mentioned and for position ing the same with its open end downward into registering position with the adhesive material applying means, said deposit-ing ineansservmg at the same time to unite disk with the cap. ,4,

3. In a m: chine for the manufacture of bottle closures of the cap varief'ff, the combination with means for applying adhesive material to the linner face of the head of' the metallic cap, means for depositing a sealing disk into the cap. and intermittently moving, means for conveying the metallic cap in succession to the' elements mentionedV and for positioning 'the same with its open end downward into. registering position with the adhesive material applying means, such depositing means time to unite the did: with the cap.

4, ln a mathiprsv for `the mamiifacture of bottle closures oit' the cap variety, the combination with means for applying adhesive material to the inner face of the head of the mei-allie cap, means fordepositing a sealing disk into the cap, and a single rotary intermittently moving means ier conveying the metallic cap in succession to the elements mem ioned and for positioning the same with its open end downward into registering position with the adhesive material applying means, said depositing means serving at the same time to unite the disk with the cap.

5. A mechanism for applying adhesive material to the inner faces of the metallic caps of bottle closures, comprisinv' a hollow closed member provided with a llurality of perforations o in the outer ends of said pinsto project through said perforations, and means for limiting the out-ward movement of said pins.

Signed at New York, in the county of Kings and State ot New York, this 27th day oit January, fr.' l). 12H3.

ALEXANDER BOGDNFFY. ivitnesses:

Siemen!) llnnzoo, Ammann A. RICHTER.

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